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From: chris@mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: ridiculous words (was NULL as a string terminator)
Message-ID: <26190@mimsy.umd.edu>
Date: 24 Aug 90 12:32:41 GMT
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In article <26122@mimsy.umd.edu> I wrote, in response to

>>(unwords like "internationalisation", I mean)

the following:

>Well, I am not particularly enamoured of polysyllabic neologisms
>applied epideictically myself. :-)  But I evagate:

Before I get any more queries, I have to confess: I got two of these
words out of `Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure, and Preposterous
Words', by Josefa Heifetz Byrne (ISBN 0-671-49782-0, published by
Washington Square Press, which is a division of Pocket Books, which
is in turn a division of Simon and Schuster, Inc., 1230 Avenue of
the Americas, New York, New York, 10012, USA).  These are:

    epideictic (adj): impressive; for display purposes; exhibitable.

and

    evagation (n): mental wandering; digression.

This is indeed, as the back cover notes, a book for logolepts (word
maniacs).  The thing most wrong with it is the bold font, which is too
heavy and makes distinguising between lowercase `i' and `l' very
difficult---so much so, in fact, that the back cover gets it wrong,
claiming to be a book for `iogolepts'!

Anyway, enough non-C non-sense for now,
-- 
In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 405 2750)
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